Desmond Morris Quotes
This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.
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Walking strengthens my legs, and I swing my arms to tone my upper body.
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Once your network has lost confidence in you, you're headed for the dustbin of history.
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I start to lose my mind if I'm not working on something, like breaking my back on something.
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The analytical faculty is underdeveloped in women.
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This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
